Size Guide
| Size |
|---|
Body Measurement: Men Jacket
| SIZE | CHEST (IN) |
|---|---|
| XS | 37 - 38 |
| S | 39 - 40 |
| M | 41 - 42 |
| L | 43 - 44 |
| XL | 45 - 46 |
| XXL | 47 - 48 |
| XXXL | 49 - 50 |
Sharper in the hand
The listing photos flatten the pattern out completely. In the hand the herringbone is obvious and the contrast collar is a good deal sharper than it looks on a screen. The listing photographs really do the thing no favours at all, in fairness to it.
Present that landed well
Bought it for my father in law, which is a high risk purchase in our family. He put it on, said it was the right length, and has worn it every Sunday since. I have never had a present recieved that well before.
Collar turns up in wind
The shirt collar is cut deep enough that turned up it actually covers the back of the neck and stays there. I have gone without a scarf most mornings on the strength of it, which is not something I could do in my last coat.
Arrived very quickly
Four days from ordering to the door. Boxed with cardboard in the shoulders and tissue in the sleeves, so it came out ready to hang rather than needing a steam.
It is a shirt collar
Good coat and I am keeping it, but be aware of what you are getting. The listing talks about a lapel and the collar is actually a flat shirt collar, so it sits close to the neck rather than opening out. It looks perfectly fine, it is just not at all what I had pictured when I ordered it. I would still order it again knowing that now.
Pattern lifts a grey coat
A plain grey coat is a dull thing. The herringbone gives it something to look at up close and it still reads as a quiet grey from any real distance away.
Bought after a recommendation
A colleague had one and I asked him about it before I had my own coat off. Ordered the same evening. It fits me the way it fits him despite us being different builds, which says something about how well the pattern is cut. We now check with each other before anything formal comes up in the diary. Neither of us minds very much when it happens.
Over a suit or jeans
This is the reason I bought it. Over a suit on a Tuesday it is smart, over a jumper and jeans on a Saturday it is not trying too hard. Very few coats manage to do both without looking wrong in one of the two situations. Very few things in my wardrobe manage to earn their place that easily these days.
Smart enough for work
Our office is not formal but you cannot turn up looking like you have been camping. This sits exactly on that line and I have worn it every day since the weather turned without anyone commenting either way, which is the point.
Room over a jacket
Ordered my usual size expecting it to be tight over a suit jacket and it is not. Room across the shoulders and through the body with nothing pulling at the seams. I ordered my usual size and had nothing at all to send back.
Would order the same again
It has done a full season without a complaint from me and I would replace it with an identical one if it wore out. That is about the highest thing I can say about a coat and I do not say it often.
Four pockets outside
Two hand warmers and two above them, and all four are deep enough to be worth having. Gloves in one, phone in another, and nothing shows through the front of the coat.
Pockets have no flaps
Solid coat and I wear it constantly. The front pockets are open with no flap over them, so when you lean forward things can work their way out. I have caught my phone twice. I keep it inside a zipped bag now and it is not an issue. Everything else about the coat has been completely faultless so far this year.
No coat over the top
Wore it through most of the autumn with just a jumper underneath and it did the job easily. The wool blend has body and the lining is not that thin slippery stuff which lets the wind straight through the back. I have not reached for the heavy coat once yet this year.
Needs a layer underneath
Very good coat but it is a mid weight rather than a winter one. From October to about December it is perfect on its own. In a hard frost I want a jumper under it, whereas my old heavy coat did not need one. Worth knowing what you are buying. Buy it for the season that it is actually made for.
Right length for a coat
Three quarter is definately the length I keep coming back to. Long enough to cover a suit jacket properly, short enough that you are not gathering it up to get into a car or catching it on every stair. It hits just above the knee on me and that is exactly where I want a coat to stop. Getting the length right matters more than anything else on a coat.
Cleaned and unchanged
End of season clean and it came back with no shrinkage, no change in the pattern and the lining still lying flat. I was suprised, because a herringbone is where pressing usually goes wrong and it comes back looking crushed. I will keep having it done at the end of each season.
Bought it last minute
Left it far too late as usual and ordered five days before I needed it. Turned up with two days in hand and needed nothing doing to it before wearing. I would not recommend leaving it that late, but it worked out.
Handles rain well
Caught in a heavy shower with no umbrella and the water sat on the surface rather than going straight through. Hung it up and by the morning it was dry withuot any marking and no shrinkage. I would not call it waterproof but it is a great deal better than I expected.
Weave has depth
Up close you can see the grey and the black going in and out of each other and it gives the cloth a life that a flat dyed coat never has. At ten paces it is simply a very good grey coat, which is rather the point of a pattern like this. A flat dyed coat simply cannot do that at any price.
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